Dress Rehearsal

FOR MOST OF HER TWENTY-SOMETHING YEARS, Lily Breit's been comfortable living life in the wings. Not much has changed since college: same apartment, same job, and just a few dates since senior year. The non-dating isn't ideal, but seriously, what's a girl to do when her best friends are married and her weekends are eaten up by family gatherings and work obligations? There are always plenty of men around, but she's either related to them or they don't go for the XX-chromosome. All of that changes on New Year's Eve when a best friend's life-altering news inspires Lily to take some risks. Enter Mitch, a promising paramour, except for one thing: his policy against "strings." Normally, Lily would heed her instincts and stay away, but her resolution is to try new things, right? After the romance falls epically apart, Lily stumbles into David. He wants more than Lily thinks she can give, and when Mitch comes back into her life, she needs to choose between the devil she knows and the one that she doesn't.